Rotarian Action Group
for the
Alleviation of Hunger & Malnutrition

Get the facts.  What is hunger and food security all about?  Why have food prices been increasing rapidly and what effect is this having on the poor and the malnourished?
Learn how people in all regions of the world suffer and what they need in order to have a society where everyone has enough nutritious food to eat, now and in the future.

Look in your own backyard.  Is there hunger and food insecurity in your own community?  Get to know what the lives of people in your own neighborhood are like. Educate yourself.

Think globally, act locally.  Is there anything you can do at home? Volunteer at a food pantry or food kitchen-if there isn’t one in your community, start one.

Get others involved.  Talk to your friends, families and teachers about the problem. Tell your Rotary Club.  Make it a group concern, a living issue in your own community.

Put yourself in hunger’s place.  Experiment with what it’s like to go without food.  Help set up a day in your club or community where you fast for a meal, several meals, a whole day.  Talk about what it feels like to be deprived of food.

Use model programs.  There are lots of programs already working in your community.  Take some of them even further into your own community.

Become an advocate for food aid to developing countries, school lunch program and for education and assistance to the malnourished. Contact your political representatives.  Let them know you support adequate funding for programs which alleviate hunger and malnutrition globally.

Check where your money is going.  Find out where the money goes for the products you buy.  Use your money wisely.  Support anti-poverty and anti-hunger efforts to the extent you are able.

Be green.  Break away from a “throw-away” lifestyle.  Reduce. Recycle and reuse.

Dare to Care: Be There.  Open your heart and wallet.  Unless we each bring compassion and heart to the problem, it won’t go away.